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Hi folks, So I’m back. I’ve made silicon moulds for all the parts in this kit and created wax copies of all the parts. The pictures below shows all the silicon moulds and all the wax parts. You can see where there is flashing and extra wax that leaked out between the two halves of […]
Here are a few pictures of the second half of my two part mould. The next day after the first half is set I unstick them from the base, turn them over, and remove the modelling clay. The forms are repositioned and the second half of silicon rubber is measured and poured. The real […]
Someone said that I had a wonderful workspace and that they’d love to have as much room to make a mess! Yes, my workspace was originally the previous house owner’s wine room. He was an Italian barber, and one thing about Italy is that the whole boot is supposedly overflowing with wine. I think it […]
Someone recently said that I should do a bronze cast of 7 of 9 from the Star Trek: Voyager series. Apparently, she was the reason many watched the show? I was told that if I was to cast her in bronze then people would buy her. But, I’ve never found a resin kit of this […]
I like to play with molten metal and cast bronze anime figures in my workshop. Unfortunately, I have not yet figured out how to make my creations come alive. So, in the interim we can look at cute dancing animated figures. Vocaloids are created with innovative Miku Miku Dance software that was developed in Japan […]
This post describes etching the Julia Set images for my Mandelbrot Cube. Each cube face is about two inches square and made from 20 gauge sheet brass. Etching requires that a mask or resist be put on the metal to stop the etching acids or salts from reacting with the areas that are to be […]
The Mandelbrot Cube project is a fascinating exploration of fractal mathematics. Fractals are functions such that whenever you look deeper into a section of the curve you see repetitions and self-similarities to what you first started with. Fractals are recursive and iterative and chaotic. And, they are truly beautiful. For the bronze figure in this […]
This post shows the fabrication of the Archimedean spiral that begins the famous Yellow Brick Road in the Wizard of Oz. I am using 24 gauge copper sheet for the base and 24 gauge yellow brass sheet cut into a spiral for the road. My design drawing was transferred to the metal with pencil and […]
The Yellow Brick Road is a wonderful project that is intended to mix up two stories about the Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland. Each story is set in a fantasy land and has a young heroine and an evil woman antagonist. For the mathematics in this project I plan to use an Archimedes […]
This post describes the bronze casting activities for the Lemmy Miyauchi figure. The next step in the lost wax casting process, after the wax models are created, prepares the model to be encased in investment or silica plaster. Sprues or wax connectors are attached to the wax model. The sprues form channels for the molten […]
